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Expensive Evening of Entertainment
Nov. 4th, 2006 06:08 pmLast night I spent $56 on entertainment just for myself. And I don't regret it. At least not most of it.
How can this be, you may wonder.
First was the ticket to Requiem, the modern dance done on the site of the partly completed, soon-to-be-torn-down Intel building I wrote about last summer, back for another run. I called to reserve a ticket. The person asked me if I would like a $20 ticket or a $30 ticket. I said $20. He said, "That will be $23."
So I regret the $3. I should have just bought the ticket at the gate, because there were plenty when I arrived.
Then, all the way to the Intel building from I-35 I saw a total of zero parking places. So I paid $5 to park in the big parking garage that used to be free.
At the performance, I found that they were selling DVDs of the performance for $20. Score!! This was the best and most important expenditure of the evening. Now I can watch it and share it with anyone (who's with me) any time I want, without feeling guilty about how cold the performers are or how they are once again risking their lives, etc.
Of course I haven't seen the DVD. It might have been done by some idiot who thinks it's a good idea to focus on people's faces or something.
The performance was totally awesome again. And this time I was in the bleachers, which allowed an excellent head-free view of the action. I was on the top bleacher, which was a little bit exciting. The bleachers wobbled any time people climbed on them. And I think they were built for middle-schoolers, so we had to intersperse our knees with the other people's backs. And we had the most exciting standing ovation of all time. Very wobbly, almost like standing on a moving bus and clapping instead of holding on. Fun!
Afterwards I met up with raaga123 and we went out for a drink. But instead I got corned beef hash and scrambled eggs, which were just as wonderfully warm as hot chocolate, but with more substance. I've heard Katz's has bad food, bad service, and high prices, but I found none of those things to be true. In fact, the food was too good--the corned beef hash was made from giant pieces of actual corned beef, so it was more like a meat potato salad than a hash. It was still good, just different than what I was expecting. But there was plenty extra to take home to R., who likes this kind best. And all for only $8 including tax and tip.
A lovely evening.
**
Sorry, this is it for a week and a half while I am at Disney World. Have a lovely, lovely time doing all the things I am missing. I will be missing a guitar class, some ballroom dance classes, a 10K race I could have walked with co-workers, a very fun professional development day, a pie baking contest, and who knows what else!
How can this be, you may wonder.
First was the ticket to Requiem, the modern dance done on the site of the partly completed, soon-to-be-torn-down Intel building I wrote about last summer, back for another run. I called to reserve a ticket. The person asked me if I would like a $20 ticket or a $30 ticket. I said $20. He said, "That will be $23."
So I regret the $3. I should have just bought the ticket at the gate, because there were plenty when I arrived.
Then, all the way to the Intel building from I-35 I saw a total of zero parking places. So I paid $5 to park in the big parking garage that used to be free.
At the performance, I found that they were selling DVDs of the performance for $20. Score!! This was the best and most important expenditure of the evening. Now I can watch it and share it with anyone (who's with me) any time I want, without feeling guilty about how cold the performers are or how they are once again risking their lives, etc.
Of course I haven't seen the DVD. It might have been done by some idiot who thinks it's a good idea to focus on people's faces or something.
The performance was totally awesome again. And this time I was in the bleachers, which allowed an excellent head-free view of the action. I was on the top bleacher, which was a little bit exciting. The bleachers wobbled any time people climbed on them. And I think they were built for middle-schoolers, so we had to intersperse our knees with the other people's backs. And we had the most exciting standing ovation of all time. Very wobbly, almost like standing on a moving bus and clapping instead of holding on. Fun!
Afterwards I met up with raaga123 and we went out for a drink. But instead I got corned beef hash and scrambled eggs, which were just as wonderfully warm as hot chocolate, but with more substance. I've heard Katz's has bad food, bad service, and high prices, but I found none of those things to be true. In fact, the food was too good--the corned beef hash was made from giant pieces of actual corned beef, so it was more like a meat potato salad than a hash. It was still good, just different than what I was expecting. But there was plenty extra to take home to R., who likes this kind best. And all for only $8 including tax and tip.
A lovely evening.
**
Sorry, this is it for a week and a half while I am at Disney World. Have a lovely, lovely time doing all the things I am missing. I will be missing a guitar class, some ballroom dance classes, a 10K race I could have walked with co-workers, a very fun professional development day, a pie baking contest, and who knows what else!